'I’d like to see a city that is looking out for people with disabilities; a city that is looking out for women, young women; a city that is capable of providing adequate health care' –ShahanaFromBK
. To witness a radical feminist activist and organizer running for office to better the lives in her district and her community, the Bangladeshi Muslim enclave of Kensington, Brooklyn, reminds me of the future in which I want to live.TANAÏS: Let's start with your lupus diagnosis.I was 17. In no way [did I feel like] this would be a diagnosis of a chronic illness.
T: Do you think local politics really is the crucial space for people to engage? Especially when the national political stage seems so fraught, fractured and not necessarily representative of some of the more radical visions that we might have for society? What are your visions for New York City?I’d like to see a city that is looking out for people with disabilities; a city that is looking out for women, young women; a city that is capable of providing adequate health care, paired with mental...
T: What does it feel like to be running at this historical moment of young women of color politicians, like , with folks like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley speaking truth to power, who know that the most marginalized people in society need to have their lives advocated for in government?
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